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November 8, 2008

Google Chrome to Improve Bookmark Management

Some recent Chromium builds added many features that improve bookmark management and they'll probably be available in a future Google Chrome update (to find the difference between Chrome and Chromium, read this post).

The most notable new feature is a bookmark manager that lets you find bookmarks, move them to a new folder or easily delete a large number of bookmarks. In the Tools drop-down, there are options to import bookmarks from a HTML file and to export bookmarks in a similar format.

Another useful new feature is the option to import bookmarks from Google Bookmarks. The browser incorrectly mentions that the bookmarks are imported from Google Toolbar, since the toolbar doesn't even have to be installed. For now, the bookmarks aren't synchronized with Google Bookmarks.

45 comments:

This is great!.. it's one of the features that I've been wanting for a long time, especially given that I've made my default browser as Chrome.. of course the most needed feature is still the add-on support..

i love chrome, but untill noscript or similar funcionality is available i'll stick with firefox. so pleeease google, add this. i really can't wait for this to be added.i'll settle to wait for/let go all other add-ons of firefox but i won't browse the internet without noscript(or something similar).

so i got used to using chrome as my main browser cause fx was having problems and i've loaded it with so many add-ons, it runs like treacle..anyways i tidied up my bookmarks in chrome one day which i had imported from fx but now i want to clear my fx bookmarks and import my new cleaned up chrome bookmarks to there. anyone have a hog's uncle clue how i can do that?

The next great thing would be to make it sync with Google Bookmarks. That would be incredible, rival Opera, and give your bookmarks service a reason to use it.

Hey, for those of you that are waiting for this on Google Chrome release, stop waiting. If you switch to the Dev releases, it gives you all these latest features, and in my experience it's bee just as (if not more) stable. Just download the EZ channel chooser here...

But this feature should have been on board from the very start of the Beta. I think there are enough persons that web-surf from different computers and use a flash drive or a web service to have their bookmarks with them.

Add Google Bookmarks to the list of Chrome search engines and you can then conveniently call up bookmarks in the address bar. When I want one of my Google Bookmarks, I type "gb <search term(s)>” Enter, and click the bookmark I was looking for. Examples and step by step directions for setting this up at here. Moving from a toolbar paradigm to a search paradigm to use Google bookmarks was a natural step for me.

Maybe i dreamt this, but i think that when i was first using chrome, it enabled me to label my bookmarks much like dig does. I saw the genius in that, enabling bookmark search sets. The current version just does the same categorizing bs by using folders that is in ie and firefox, limiting the scope of organization of my bookmarks. Also, it doesn't handle like a webpage but more like a folder list. To me that too has always sucked plenty. Folders are an unnecessary interpretation that exists because it once was the only way to organize. I really would want to see my bookmarks be part of different collections again. Labeling allows that.

I have been using Google Chrome since it was first released. But, I am not sure if I need to re-install or if it automatically updates. I tried to find out what version of Chrome I have, but it looks like that there is no way of finding the version.

Also, Firefox allows me to drag a bookmarklet to the browser toolbar to easily update my FriendFeed account. But, again there is no way of doing this on Chrome. Could some one help with this please?

I love keyboard shortcuts and Chrome seems to have thrown them all away. With IE and every other program every option in the menus were available with a simple Alt press. I love being able to recall bookmarks by hitting Alt+A then a letter. That's all gone now. While I'm loving Chrome's many features, this lack of bookmark access is killing me.

Chrome is so awesome, but it has the worst bookmark system I have ever seen in a browser, and I'm talking since way back in the Netscape Navigator era. My god, just trying to add a bookmark is troublesome.

Yes, definitely the worst bookmark system I've seen thus far, and unfortunately, it just got worse with their new update. Arg. I like being able to simultaneously ctrl+click to launch my bookmarked link into a new tab, but now that doesn't work anymore. That's frustrating when you want to view multiple links in your bookmarks without having to backup every time. The more and more I use Google's software, the more I think they should stick to search.

Three years later, Chrome's bookmark handling is worse than ever. Did they do it half-assed because they were hoping to buy delicious and make some cloudy junk or something? This story needs an update.